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Last week a massive ice storm struck the heartland of America, leaving at least 42 dead and millions without power or water. Days later there are still over a million people in Kentucky who have no power, no water, and no communications. They could have to survive this way for weeks! The conditions are dire and getting worse, with some storm ( Read more... )

$350 million for child care on military bases ( Read more... )

A Bleak Day
By Ben Stein

I love this. The new kind of politics of hope. Eight hours of debate in the HR to pass a bill spending $820 billion, or roughly $102 billion per hour of debate.

Only ten per cent of the "stimulus" to be spent on 2009.

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Portland mayor admits affair with 18 year-old

Mayor of Racine, Wisconsin resigns after sex sting

Read the articles and count how many times it mentions that the respective mayors are Democrats.  If they had been a Republicans, though, you can bet the farm it would've been in the first goddamn sentence.

I really, truly don't understand people who ( Read more... )

Breaking: Possible arson fire destroys Sarah Palin's church

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Think the reporter would've said the same thing to a white McCain voter?

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Would the Last Honest Reporter Please Turn On the Lights?
By Orson Scott Card

Editor's note: Orson Scott Card is a Democrat and a newspaper columnist, and in this opinion piece he takes on both while lamenting the current state of journalism.
An open letter to the local daily paper - almost every local daily paper in ( Read more... )